The biggest impact will be the lost sales. Most Multiplayer clans will stick with MW1 of COD5 instead of buying this game.

Yup, I'm in a clan and we arrange clan LAN's and we also go to community LAN's. COD 4 & 5 are popular games we play and now we're all boycotting Infinity Ward because there's no point anymore. We were all very excited for renting our first game servers for modern warfare 2 - it was how we were planning on getting our name out more. Now all those dreams are crushed.

There forums were flooded with spam and all sorts of harrasment, my friend says they turned off the servers to clean up the forums. So There's like 10 posts per second on this stuff today, they also took down there contact page because people were phoning them and yelling at them. My friend got banned for saying infinity ward sucks and stuff, this is bull. There is now like 90% of the gaming community boycotting IW... they deserve it.

Sushi Warrior

October 17, 2009 06:06 PM

lol, IW is getting all "shut up, no it's awesome! Really!" because people don't like it. They think banning will help. What a bunch of dipshits.

Squeetard

October 17, 2009 07:00 PM

Congrats IW for taking away the last reason anyone would actually want to buy this game.

Polygon

October 17, 2009 07:07 PM

*edit*

Jake_HT

October 17, 2009 07:23 PM

Wow.......... :doh:

MpG

October 17, 2009 07:28 PM

This has anti-piracy written through and through, and PC gaming as a whole has brought it on themselves.

Just look at what's happening now. A bunch of giant threads full of angry people saying that they're going to pirate this game "in revenge". Gosh, how lucky for them - they get to protest and they get a free game to boot! They're the digital equivalent of the people who loot stores in the middle of a civic protest.